A discussion popped up recently in an editing group I follow about ellipses and whether they need spaces around them.… Read more And then … she used an ellipsis
Category: writing
Tell me yours, I’ll show you mine
“Show, don’t tell.” On the surface, it sounds like the simplest of advice. Fiction writers hear it all the time.… Read more Tell me yours, I’ll show you mine
Get your comma out of your but
I’d edit your manuscript, but it’s not ready yet. (BUT joins two independent clauses. Needs a comma.) Your manuscript is… Read more Get your comma out of your but
Who? That?
Who or that? There are rules—well, guidelines—to help us decide when to use “that” in a sentence and when to… Read more Who? That?
Confessions of a whale reader
Third grade. That’s when it started, with a Bobbsey Twins book, given in a Christmas exchange. The Bobbsey Twins at… Read more Confessions of a whale reader
Cathy McCabe Dee 